VLE Help Centre | Liverpool Community College
Resource and Activity Modules Explained
There are many Resource and Activity modules that you can use within your VLE course page. Try to use a variety of modules and resources throughout the page…
Resource Modules:
There are a number of tools you can create content directly within your course page or link to content you have uploaded…
Insert a label
You can use labels to organise the sections in your course page, labels are usefull for describing things and breaking up long lists of links and files.
Compose a web page
You can compose a web page, this means you can create a page as you would using a word processor. This can be to linked from anywhere you course page.
Link to a file or web site
If you want to upload your course documents you can link to them from your course page and provide easy access for your students. You can also easily create links to other external web sites.
Display a directory
If you upload a lot of files, you can organise them into directories much like you would on a PC. On your course page you can link to and display the contents of an entire folder instead of creating a long list of individual links.
Activity Modules:
There are also a number of ways that you can allow your students to interact with the course material, activities can also allow you to gain results and feedback from your students…
Assignments
The assignment module gives you an easy way to allow students to submit assignments for grading and feedback. You can ask them to submit essays, spreadsheets, presentations, web pages, photographs, or small audio or video clips. Anything they can store on a computer can be submitted in response to an assignment.
Assignments do not necessarily have to consist of file uploads. You can create offline assignments to remind students of real-world assignments they need to complete and you can just provide feedback online for them.
Forums
Forums allow you and your students to communicate with each other at any time, from anywhere with an internet connection. Students do not have to be logged in at the same time you are to communicate with you or their classmates. The technical term for this type of communication is asynchronous, meaning “not at the same time”. Asynchronous communications are contrasted with synchronous forms such as chat rooms, instant messaging, or face-to-face conversations.
Because forums are asynchronous, students can take their time composing replies. A lot of research indicates that more students are willing to participate in an asynchronous forum than are willing to speak up in class. For students whose primary language is not that of the course, people with communicative disabilities, and the just plain shy, forums offer a chance to take as much time as they need to formulate a reasonable reply. Other students, who might be afraid of embarrassing themselves by making a mistake when they speak up in class, can double check their responses before they send them in.
Chat
The Moodle chat module is a simple synchronous communication tool allowing you and your students to communicate in real time. If you have ever used an instant messaging system like MSN, you have used a system similar to the Moodle chat.
Quiz
Feedback on performance is a critical part of a learning environment, and assessment is an important activity. The Quiz module provides a way for students to demonstrate what they understand and what they don’t. A well-designed test, even a multiple-choice test, can give you valuable information. If the feedback is rapid enough, it can also be a critical tool for students to gauge their own performance and help them become more successful.
These features open up a number of strategies that usually are not practical with paper based testing.
Questionnaires
The Questionnaire activity allows users to complete online feedback style forms using a variety of user input methods. It allows you to create your own questions.
Glossaries
Moodle has a tool to help you and your students develop glossaries of terms and embed them in your course. On the surface, the glossary module doesn not seem to be more than a fancy word list. In practice, however, it is a powerful tool for learning. The glossary module has a number of features that make it easy for you and your class to develop shared vocabulary lists, add comments to definitions, and even link every appearance of a word in a course to its glossary entry
